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Darwin, sexual selection, and the origins of music
Humans devote ample time to produce and perceive music. How and why this behavioral propensity originated in our species is unknown. For centuries, speculation dominated the study of the evolutionary origins of musicality.
Ravignani, A.
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The present review summarizes the available evidence on musicality, or music-related abilities, in infants (birth to 3 years). In the early months of life, infants are responsive to the pitch and temporal patterns of music.
Sandra E. Trehub
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Musical Abilities and Intelligence as a Subject of Research in Music Psychology and Psychology of Music Education [PDF]
The article provides an overview of scientific research on the relationship of musicality and general intelligence. It is noted that the problem of the relationship between musicality, musical achievements and intelligence is interdisciplinary.
Tatiana S. Knyazeva
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No-one is Unmusical:Elizabeth, Everyday Cheermongery, and Active Musical Citizenship [PDF]
Everyday cheermongers spread positive emotion through social contagion. This capability is illustrated here through a portrait of Elizabeth, a ‘Suzuki method’ violin teacher in Edinburgh.
Thin, Neil
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Sonification, Musification, and Synthesis of Absolute Program Music [PDF]
Presented at the 22nd International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD-2016)When understood as a communication system, a musical work can be interpreted as data existing within three domains. In this interpretation an absolute domain is interposed as a
Coop, Allan D.
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How Can Music Foster Intimacy?
Our first intimate relationship is with our parents. As babies, we are deeply dependent on our parents for safety and nurturing. The connection between us is created by our facial expressions, our body movements and our sounds.
Helen Shoemark
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Higher-Order Musical Temporal Structure in Bird Song
Bird songs often display musical acoustic features such as tonal pitch selection, rhythmicity, and melodic contouring. We investigated higher-order musical temporal structure in bird song using an experimental method called “music scrambling” with human ...
Hans T. Bilger +5 more
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An AI‐Enabled All‐In‐One Visual, Proximity, and Tactile Perception Multimodal Sensor
Targeting integrated multimodal perception of robots, an AI‐enabled all‐in‐one multimodal sensor is proposed. This sensor is capable of perceiving three types of modalities, including vision, proximity, and tactility. By toggling an ultraviolet light and adjusting the camera focus, it switches smoothly between multiple perceptual modalities, enabling ...
Menghao Pu +7 more
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Balys Sruoga – the first translator of Anna Akhmatova’s poetry
The article considers both the history of the creation of translations of the writer Balis Sruoga, who translated poems by Anna Akhmatova, and the translations themselves.
Aliona Sofija Ivinskaja
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Theories of the development of human communication [PDF]
This article considers evidence for innate motives for sharing rituals and symbols from animal semiotics, developmental neurobiology, physiology of prospective motor control, affective neuroscience and infant communication. Mastery of speech and language
Delafield-Butt, Jonathan +1 more
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